Federal Government Tells U.S. High Court Trump Controls All Executive Officers

( October 13, 2025, 11:38 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. president controls all executive officers and has “the authority to remove at will the presidentially appointed heads of multimember administrative agencies, such as the FTC [Federal Trade Commission],” the federal government tells the U.S. Supreme Court in an Oct. 10 petitioner brief filed in a case over the president’s March 2025 purported removal of two FTC commissioners....